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“I am worried it is all going to get brushed under the carpet, and he was too good for that.

“It feels like they [the police] have done it and it’s all right, it is okay. I really want to know what happened, I need to know that.”

Aston McLean Williams, 27, died at the scene in Wokingham Road, East Reading, after officers were called to an incident in the early hours of Wednesday, August 6.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating the incident.

Miss Williams has found comfort in close friend Miss Blake, 57, the mother of murdered teen Junior Spence – a close friend of Mr Williams.

Miss Blake has opened her two-bedroom home in Circuit Lane, Southcote, to Miss Williams and her three other children so they can support each other under one roof.

Before her son’s death, Miss Williams was living with her youngest child Aliah, 17, in a B&B in Russell Street, West Reading, which does not allow visitors. They had lived there for three months waiting for a council home to become available.

Miss Williams was told of her son’s death when police came to the door of her B&B room at 10.30am on the Wednesday.

She said: “They said to me he was in an accident with a police car, that sounded to me that he was in a car. I had gone outside and I was waiting for Lewis [her youngest son]. He came and he was shouting at the police and I didn’t understand. It was my son who told me what happened.”

Since that morning Miss Williams has only returned to her room in the B&B once.

“I went there to get clothes and when I sat on the bed all I could see was the two police officers who knocked on the door,” she said.

Miss Williams and Aston spoke every day, including the day before he was killed. “The day before he phoned me and asked me to wake him up in the morning at 8am, so I was phoning his phone that morning [of the collision] and it was ringing,” she said through tears.

Miss Blake, who knows too well the agony of losing a child, is helping her friend through this traumatic time. Her son Junior was fatally stabbed outside Burger King in St Mary’s Butts on May 2, 2008. Three Bristol men were convicted of his murder in April 2009 and sentenced to life in prison.

She said: “She [Miss Williams] has nowhere to grieve, I couldn’t let her stay at that B&B.”

Miss Blake added: “No one is telling her anything. It is like they’re putting up walls, we’re not being told nothing.

“What happened to her child?”

Aston’s family and closest friends are planning to hold a memorial event, with the date yet to be decided. Anyone with information about the collision is asked to call the IPCC on 0800 092 0340 or email wokinghamroad@ipcc.gsi.gov.uk.

Aston Williams remembered

Aston Williams grew up in Whitley and attended Ashmead School, now John Madejski Academy, in Northumberland Avenue.

A smile is brought to Miss Williams’ face as she remembers her son as a teenager.

She said: “He was always making everyone laugh and getting told off for silly things.”

The father-of-two was a construction worker and when he was not on site he enjoyed motocross with his friends.

He loved music, especially reggae, and enjoyed playing the guitar.

Miss Williams said: “He was like the person who just walks into a place and makes the atmosphere, he was a joker, always laughing.

“Always at the most inappropriate time he would make you laugh.”

Close friend Vicky Clovey, 28, from West Reading, said she will remember Mr Williams for his “good heart”.

She continued: “He was a lovely guy, he really was, and he never took life too seriously.”

Miss Blake’s son Anthony, 32, grew up with Mr Williams and they would regularly go motocross racing.

“Aston always made me laugh,” he said. “He was bubbly, he always had time for you, and he cared about people a lot.”

Aston’s sister Aliah is as determined as her mum to find out what happened to “the best brother in the world”.

She said: “He was always there for everyone and he always put everyone else before himself.

“He always had a cheeky grin on his face no matter what.

“I want to make sure Aston gets justice.”

Aston’s younger brother Lewis, 20, said: “He will never be forgotten and justice will be served.”